Marymount School: Legal Medicine confirmed that former professor Mauricio Zambrano did abuse one of his students

After several complaints were heard from students at Marymount School in Bogotá about alleged cases of sexual harassment and abuse by a physical education teacher, Noticias RCN revealed the Legal Medicine ruling in which it was stated that the now former professor Mauricio Zambrano did sexually abuse a girl under 14 years old.

In the four-page document of the Prosecutor's Office, known by the Bogotá news, Medicina Legal stated that the young student did not consent to sexual activity with the accused.

In this regard, the opinion of Legal Medicine indicated that, due to the sexual abuse of which the minor was the victim, she currently suffers from psychological effects in addition to an “injury to free development and sexual formation”, as reported by the same media.

In view of the evidence against Zambrano, RCN Radio learned that the Attorney General's Office filed an appeal against the Bogotá Guarantee Judge's decision to release the former teacher.

It should be recalled that, on 10 March, the judge decided not to send Mauricio Zambrano to prison because he considered that the teacher could continue the proceedings against him while he was free, despite the fact that the Attorney General's Office had submitted evidence to be charged with an assurance measure as he was considered a danger to society.

Because of the decision, both the Prosecutor's Office and the Attorney General, Margarita Cabello, opposed it. “Considering that the judicial operator did not fully analyze the material evidence provided by the Prosecutor's Office and from which a reasonable inference of authorship of the alleged act can be made,” Cabello said.

The newspaper El País de Cali learned that, after the Prosecutor's Office appealed the decision, another judge will be responsible for resolving the situation in which the prosecutor asks that Zambrano be sent to prison for the more than 30 pieces of evidence that exist against him for alleged cases of sexual harassment and abuse against students of the school Marymount.

After a report of an alleged case of sexual abuse of a young seventh grader at Marymount came to light, several students of the school decided to make known through social networks that they had also been victims of sexual harassment or abuse by the education teacher through social networks. physicist, Mauricio Zambrano, who had been working at the school for 15 years.

The events transcended to such an extent that several of the students and former students of the school decided to file formal complaints with the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, with special emphasis on the fact that the now former teacher of the institution made morbid comments about their bodies when he saw them alone and even invited them to get out.

For the case, officials of the educational establishment also came out to speak out, stating that this was not the first time that the facts had been reported, and that the directives never gave a clear answer to it and they were not able to handle the situation either.

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